Collins on LeBron foul E-mail
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Monday, 30 March 2009 03:11
Collins, looking zaftig nowadays, caused an uproar in Cleveland Friday when he tagged LeBron James with a flagrant foul -- an incident inflamed by The King's observation that the hit was "borderline dirty." Replays indicated the former Nets center tried to wrap James up -- and failed miserably.

"Yeah, I tried," Collins said with a laugh, before slapping his right biceps. "But he ran into the python, man -- what do you want? I was just going to give him a hard foul, wrap him up. But he fell too quickly for me to wrap him up. It's one of those plays that happens in the game -- nothing personal behind it."



Brian Stensaas/Star Tribune, Jason Collins on the foul:
“Its just one of those plays that happened. I wasn’t going to get dunked on. I was just going to give him a hard foul and wrap him up. But he fell too quickly for me to wrap him up.”

James called the play “borderline dirty.” Mr Collins?

“He;s entitled to his opinion. There was no intent to hurt him. There was just intent to give him a hard foul and wrap him up. I think he understands that.”



James stayed down for a couple of minutes and, afterward, he called the play "borderline dirty."

Jarron Collins  disagreed.

"My brother had a split-second decision to make," he said. "'Do I take the charge or do I foul him? But if I take the charge, LeBron will probably still dunk on me.' So he decided to foul him. ...

"He didn't mean it to be malicious or anything. He just wanted to stop his penetration. And he stopped it. It was just a foul."
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